Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.